“If it’s pinned, it shows the code; if it’s hidden, it hide the output” may be the wrong naive expectation; I think naively you’d still understand that focusing opens the editor. So that column (Pinned? → No → Focused? → Yes) should be more green.
Showed this to Claire and her reference point is Excel, which reminded me of several things:
- It's conceivable to have an editor pinned to the window frame outside the scrolling document
- There's UI in Excel like "hide columns" which doesn't even have a tombstone, you have to go somewhere else to restore them, which isn't great
- Excel has sheet-wide keyboard shortcuts to toggle to showing input or showing output, which is kinda cool. Imagining transiently going into that state without forfeiting the specific pinning.
- Should have a standard term in the UI for "worker" and "editor" and a standard term for and orientation toward "show" and "hide" (rather than how "pinned" is oriented toward "show" and "hidden" is oriented toward "hide").